Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

This Weekend @ UP Asian Center: Agrarian Reform Congress, Art Exhibits on Astronomy and Space

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Join us this weekend at the Asian Center! 

The Asian Center has co-organized and will host the People's Agrarian Reform Congress on Friday, 6 June 2014, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free and open to the public, the whole-day Congress will address several themes, including the de-prioritization of agrarian reform/smallholder agriculture; the slow implementation of CARP/ER; land distribution issues; lack of support services; agrarian justice issues, among others. Read more.

Dr. Reuben Ramas Cañete, Associate Professor and University Artist I, will open his fourth solo exhibition, Kosmograpiya, on Saturday, 7 June 2014, 3:00 p.m.  On view until 4 July 2014, the exhibit features fifty works on paper based on images of cosmic entities like galaxies and nebulae. They are also inspired by the efforts of Asian scholars, philosophers, and scientists to represent and study the cosmic order since the dawn of civilization. Read more.

The Asian Center will be hosting another art exhibit, Containing Expanded Space, from 7 June to 4 July 2014. The exhibit will open on Saturday, 7 June, at 6:00 P.M. The exhibit is Ulysses' Veloso's Master of Fine Arts Thesis. Mr. Veloso is a sculptor who transposes surreal and abstract existentialism to produce artwork that is dynamic, transformative and experiential.  He explores the possibilities of sculptural materials from its visual quality to its meaning and weaves into it his ideas and experiences. Read more. 

For more information on the art exhibits, please contact the Asian Center Museum Office at 63.981.8500 local 3580 or email them at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. For inquires on the agrarian reform Congress, kindly contact Mary Ann Manahan at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or at +63.906.298.3206 (c/o Secretariat).